The assessment covered the solution’s management, operational, and technical security controls and was performed under the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA for those of you inside of the Capital Beltway). The FISMA framework is used for managing information security for all information systems used or operated by a U.S. federal government agency or by a contractor or other organization on behalf of a federal agency.

Net-net, Government agencies will now have access to a cloud computing solution from Appian and Amazon Web Services that has gone through the rigorous Certification and Accreditation based on the governments FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002).